François Leccia

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"Tadashi, stand by to board!"

François Leccia (October 22, 1948 - July 12, 2009) was a French actor.

As a voice actor, he was the regular French voice of Harry Hamlin and dubbed several times actors such as Jack Coleman, John Travolta and Jean-Claude Van Damme.

In animation, he dubbed Arthur O'Connor and Dr Robinson in Tom Sawyer, Tommy, Jedaïte and Kunzite in Sailor Moon, but also Bob the Builder in the eponymous series (in addition to singing the French opening). He is also the voice of Captain Harlock in the 1984 series Arcadia of My Youth: Endless Orbit SSX (following Richard Darbois who dubbed him in the 1978 series Space Pirate Captain Harlock).

Voice roles

The Transformers

Main roles

• Cyclonus
• Red Alert
• Sky Lynx
• Spike Witwicky (City of Steel, Attack of the Autobots then regular voice from Dinobot Island onwards)

Occasional substitutions

• Alpha Trion (The Search for Alpha Trion)
• Astrotrain (Blaster Blues and Cosmic Rust)
• Blaster (Quest for Survival)
• Blitzwing (Tripe Takeover)
• Blurr (Dark Awakening and The Return of Optimus Prime, Part 2)
• Breakdown (Masquerade)
• Chip Chase (The Core)
• Cosmos (Cosmic Rust)
• Dead End (Trans-Europe Express and Cosmic Rust)
• Devastator (City of Steel)
• Dirge (Auto Berserk)
• Drag Strip (Masquerade)
• Frenzy (City of Steel)
• Grimlock (Dark Awakening)
• Hot Spot (Carnage in C-Minor)
• Huffer (Blaster Blues)
• Jazz (Desertion of the Dinobots, Part 1)
• Kickback (The Revenge of Bruticus)
• Motormaster (Masquerade)
• Octane (Starscream's Ghost)
• Perceptor (Desertion of the Dinobots, The God Gambit, Quest for Survival, Sea Change, Cosmic Rust and Dark Awakening)
• Powerglide (Blaster Blues and The Golden Lagoon)
• Ramjet (A Decepticon Raider in King Arthur's Court and Hoist goes Hollywood)
• Rumble (City of Steel, The Girl who loved Powerglide, Hoist goes Hollywood and Trans-Europe Express)
• Scourge (Surprise Party and Webworld)
• Scrapper (The Master Builders and Desertion of the Dinobots, Part 1)
• Sideswipe (Dinobot Island, Part 2)
• Slag (Dinobot Island episodes)
• Sludge (Dinobot Island episodes)
• Snarl (Dinobot Island, Part 1 and Dark Awakening)
• Soundwave (The Core and Auto Berserk)
• Sparkplug Witwicky (Make Tracks)
• Springer (Webworld)
• Starscream (Hoist Goes Hollywood)
• Sunstreaker (Megatron's Master Plan, Part 1)
• Swindle (Webworld)
• Thrust (Auto Berserk)
• Trailbreaker (Blaster Blues)
• Ultra Magnus (The Movie)
• Warpath (Dinobot Island, Part 2)
• Wheeljack (Cosmic Rust)
• Windcharger (Masquerade)

Incidentals

• Wild West outlaw (Dinobot Island, Part 2)
• Jero (The God Gambit)
• Raoul (Make Tracks)
• Chac (Sea Change)
• Dinsmore (Prime Target)
• Harold Edsel (Hoist Goes Hollywood)
• Auggie Cahnay (Trans-Europe Express)
• Martin and Roland (B.O.T.)
• Custodiobot (Surprise Party)
• Golden One's pupil (Madman's Paradise)
• Zebop Skandana (Carnage in C-Minor)
• Mark Morgan (The Return of Optimus Prime episodes)

The European French dub of The Transformers was pretty casual about maintaining voice actor continuity across episodes.

Note

• François Leccia is one of the only two actors to have been involved in both the French dub of the series and that of the 1986 film, along with Georges Atlas. He was given in The Movie the role of Ultra Magnus, but he did not reprise the role for seasons 3 and 4 of the series, the dubbing team for The Movie and the one for the series seemingly having not communicated at all.

External links

• Wikipedia entry (French)
• IMDB entry
• Anime News Network entry